Full time Saturday March 10th (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

Full time Saturday March 10th

6:44pm Saturday 10th March 2007 in Football

Match report from Swindon Town

Coca Cola League Two

Fulltime Swindon Town 2 Accrington Stanley 0

Swindon manager Paul Sturrock roasted his side after last weekend's fiasco at Stockport County, but injury, suspension and continued bad luck in the loan market prevented the boss making the changes he would have liked.

With skipper Aidy Williams now confirmed to be out for the rest of the season and Jerel Ifil starting a two-match suspension after his dismissal at Edgeley Park, options were limited at the back, but loan signing Ashley Westwood made his home debut in the centre of defence.

Stanley, back for a League fixture at the County Ground for the first time in 48 years, had their own problems.

Under threat of a points deduction after fielding ineligible players earlier in the season, Stanley needed all the points they could muster as they fought the drop just twelve months after re-entering the Football League.

Six minutes in and Brown charged down a kick from the keeper and Lee Peacock's first time chip bounced off the cross bar with the goalkeeper stranded.

Apart from that early opening, while Town enjoyed the greater possession over the opening stages, opportunities were few and far between.

A nice Roberts ball into Peacock was returned to Roberts and eventually turned into a corner. Then a Shakes ball into the box found Nicholas, with Pook just unable to connect with his headed ball into the six-yard box

After half an hour, the game had been spent almost entirely in Stanley's half, but there had been little threat on the visitors' goal.

Then a Roberts ball released Brown down the left and finally a quality ball put Polish keeper Kazimierczak under pressure. As Peacock challenged for the cross, he fairly clattered the goalkeeper who required treatment.

Town were slowly creating more danger from their superior possession and with ten minutes of the half to go Roberts cantered through the middle of the park on goal, but delayed too long before releasing the ball. Somehow Town won a free kick as Roberts was dispossessed which Timlin fired wide of the right hand post from 25 yards.

Peacock was again working hard up front, and forced a corner from a Jack Smith ball, but the set piece ended up in the Town End.

Then came the action that the home crowd had been willing. A Brown throw four minutes into added time was handled in the box by Richardson as Peacock challenged for the ball.

Jack Smith stepped up for the spot kick and drilled the ball to the keeper left as he dived right to give Town the lead on the stroke of halftime.

Halftime Swindon Town 1 Accrington Stanley 0

Having waited so long for the scoreboard operator to be troubled, the second half was just two minutes old when Aaron Brown's free kick thirty yards out on the right hand side was glanced home by Andy Nicholas to give Town some breathing space.

The game was three quarters over when a long throw from Nicholas was collected by Peacock, he turned well but fired his shot straight at Kazimierczak who beat the ball away.

A rare moment of danger came on 77 minutes when Shaun Whalley tried to trick Phil Smith with a free kick to the near post while everyone expected the ball to be delivered to the far, but Smith read the problem and dealt with it comfortably. Then Jay Harris' drive took a deflection, which Smith reacted well to collect on 82 minutes.

Zaaboub drove a shot wide of the far post with 86 minutes gone as the clock ran down, but the points were destined to stay in Wiltshire.

The result lifted Town back into third place with a three-point gap between Swindon and Lincoln in fourth, but Stanley are now separated from a relegation place by goal difference.

Swindon Town: Phil Smith, Jack Smith, Jamie Vincent, Aaron Brown (Zaaboub 84), Christian Roberts (Sturrock 70), Lee Peacock, Ricky Shakes (Jutkiewicz 80), Andy Nicholas, Micahel Pook, Ashley Westwood, Michael Timlin. Subs: Sofiene Zaaboub, Patrick Noubissie, Lucas Jutkiewicz, Blair Sturrock, Curtis Weston,

Accrington Stanley: Przemyslaw Kazimierczak, Leam Richardson, Robert Williams, Andrew Proctor, Andrew Mangan, Paul Mullins, Phil Andrews, Romauld Boco (Whalley 56), Andrew Todd (Brown 68), Jay Harris, Mauro Almeida (Welch halftime). Subs, Peter Kavanagh, Michael Welch, Sean Docherty, David Brown, Shaun Whalley

Attendance 6,197